H-1274

   Amend  the amendment, H-1240, to House File 813, as follows:
   1.  Page 1, after line 1 by inserting: 
   <___.  Page 1, by striking lines 7 through 12 and inserting: 
   <a.  A school board may create a founding group, either on the school board’s own motion or upon the school board’s approval of a proposal to create a founding group submitted to the school board by a group of persons or an education service provider, to apply to the state board for approval to establish and operate a charter school within and as a part of the school district by establishing a new attendance center, creating a new school within an existing attendance center, or by converting an existing attendance center to charter status.>>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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SMITH of Black Hawk